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Complistic said:
My first thought.
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Dragon Age II |OT| The Revenge of Shit Mountain
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My first thought.
Frankenstrat
Member
Chinner said:
I tip my hat to you good sir
It's all opinions obviously, including this post, but there's a point where a person's tastes come into question if they enjoyed DA2 anything but ironically.Tomat said:
I'll be honest, I loved DA:O but DA2 was like a person watching a trainwreck. You just can't stop watching it but every second is terrible.
But, that horse has been beaten and resurrected to infinity.
FieryBalrog
Member
GAF's hatred of this game is way more entertaining than the (thoroughly awful) game itself.
Just completed the first act and the Deep Roads dungeon was leaps and bounds greater than everything before it, but it still wasn't good. Getting some interaction with Varric was nice, seeing as he, Avaline and Bethany are the only characters that don't make me want to claw my ears out.
Speaking of Bethany - WHAT. THE. FUCK.
And I hear Deep Roads is the highpoint of the game...
Speaking of Bethany - WHAT. THE. FUCK.
She fucking dies for no reason? Why did no one else contract the taint? So fucking stupid. Now I have to have fucking Anders as my goddamn mage
And I hear Deep Roads is the highpoint of the game...
acheron_xl
Member
After setting my expectations appropriately low, I'm having something resembling fun with DA2. I just got to the deep roads. Let's see if the feeling sticks.
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
kai3345 said:
Dude,
the game basically hits you over the head with hints about something terrible might happen if you took Bethany/Carver.
Shoulda listened to your mother bro.
Every time someone bumps this thread I'm sourly reminded of what utter shit this game is. The fact that I didn't buy any DLC for it makes me even more bitter because I'm not even remotely interested in it and I bought every single piece of DLC for Mass Effect and like 70% of DA:O dlc. What a waste of resources, time and talent for a shameless cash grab. Ugh.
Evil Benius
Member
Just finished this yesterday and I probably liked it more than most people here, but damn that ending. I think I enjoyed the characters the most with Varric being one of my favorite in a long time. The plot of the first two Acts was actually pretty interesting to me too even if it seemed like my actions were not having enough impact on it. I also preferred having a voiced main character over the system in the first game, but I understand why some people would prefer the latter.
The dungeon reuse actually did not bother me as much as I thought it would, but I wish they would have removed the blocked sections from the mini-map. I wasted a ton of time checking to see if doors were shut and seeing the locked off sections was the main reason it was obvious locations were being reused. The wave based combat was probably my biggest complaint not only because it was fairly immersion breaking, but also because it happened every single encounter. Towards the end I found myself sighing every time I got attacked because I knew I was going to have to go through a few waves of enemies. Speaking of which the random attacks at night in the city really could have been toned down. I must have cleaned out every criminal in the city several times over by the end.
As for the ending I feel like I was tricked and given a disc with a fake ending on it. I felt like it gave enough closure on the game (not a prologue like some people feel), but where the hell did the idea for that final conflict come from?
Speaking of which I am not even sure if playing the game as a Mage should be an option with the way the story is written. It just seems odd that you are able to run around as an Apostate without anyone giving you too much trouble.
In the end I have hopes for the next game since the conflict that has been setup could be good, but some changes to the game should be made (including keeping whoever came up with the third Act of Dragon Age 2 away from Dragon Age 3).
The dungeon reuse actually did not bother me as much as I thought it would, but I wish they would have removed the blocked sections from the mini-map. I wasted a ton of time checking to see if doors were shut and seeing the locked off sections was the main reason it was obvious locations were being reused. The wave based combat was probably my biggest complaint not only because it was fairly immersion breaking, but also because it happened every single encounter. Towards the end I found myself sighing every time I got attacked because I knew I was going to have to go through a few waves of enemies. Speaking of which the random attacks at night in the city really could have been toned down. I must have cleaned out every criminal in the city several times over by the end.
As for the ending I feel like I was tricked and given a disc with a fake ending on it. I felt like it gave enough closure on the game (not a prologue like some people feel), but where the hell did the idea for that final conflict come from?
I sided with the mages the entire game, but I could not in good conscience side with them in the final battle and I was a mage! It really did seem like every mage you encountered during the game was a Blood Mage so I almost felt sympathetic to the Templars.
In the end I have hopes for the next game since the conflict that has been setup could be good, but some changes to the game should be made (including keeping whoever came up with the third Act of Dragon Age 2 away from Dragon Age 3).
HadesGigas
Member
Gvaz said:
Seems pretty tame. Maybe they could have let you choose the reaction instead of it defaulting to uncomfortable surprise.
Then they could have you choose a flirty reaction or an angry bigot reaction too!
It's not that bad. Really, if you're something like transgender you need to grow a bit of thick skin and not get offended over everything. There are bigots out there, learn to live with it and don't get upset and you'll be a lot happier. As long as something is meant to be hateful, I'm generally ok with it. And yes, I'm saying that about jokes related to me too. I'm not just saying it about transgender. In general. This clearly isn't meant to be offensive. That wouldn't have added it in. I think they felt more "awkward" at the dialog. Being surprised then them saying "Introduce me to your dellllicious friend".
It wasn't a scene that required an ""awwwwkward..." though. That seemed out of place.
It wasn't a scene that required an ""awwwwkward..." though. That seemed out of place.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Transgendered people tend to have very, very thick skin.Darklord said:
Personally i find it more offensive because its not funny and it says nothing. Bioware has never been known for their maturity though.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
"Awkward..."
Fucking Felicia Day. That's not really offensive or anything, but it is an offense to good writing and worldbuilding. Its completely contemporary! It will be obsolete in five years, maybe less!
Fucking Felicia Day. That's not really offensive or anything, but it is an offense to good writing and worldbuilding. Its completely contemporary! It will be obsolete in five years, maybe less!
HadesGigas
Member
water_wendi said:
I'd figure there's more to the characters than just that dialogue. Especially since in the main game you pretty much couldn't talk to people unless they were involved in a quest.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Well i wouldnt know since i havent played DA2 outside of the demo. i was watching a stream of it when it came out but i exhausted myself laughing and lost place.HadesGigas said:
ShockingAlberto
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Regardless of whether it's offensive or not, it is completely shit writing.
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inky said:
I really hate it when they do shit like this. Totally breaks the immersion of whatever world they were trying to create. Might as well be saying, "like, oh my god!"
I know (and I agree - the design is really shitty). However, if character designers decided that's how all elfs look in Dragon Age 2 they should stick to the design. Right now we have a scene with two elfs: one that looks exactly like all the other elfs in the universe and one that looks like a normal person with big pointy ears. That's really jarring.Woorloog said:
Not everybody looks the same or has the same built... but having only one exception is truly jarring, yes. However, considering that BW desinged the first DLC based on criticism (wave combat, other stuff (AFAIK, haven't bought the DLC (yet, other games to play)), then this new elf desing is probably also answer to criticism. Though a bit bad answer if it is one.Mr_Zombie said:
But... does the elf look like Felicia Day? If the elf is modelled after her, then that may be one reason to use human-like elf model.
(A thought that she might a half-elf also occured to me but then i remembered any child by a human and an elf is always human even though it makes no sense whatsoever)
SouthernDragon
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I want to just chime in that the OP is amazing.
Alpha-Bromega
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yeah i just read the OT for the first time and chuckled heartedly, lololol @ those system specs
Complistic
Member
So that hot new dlc came out today.
HeadlessRoland
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I think this is my favorite OT thread, OP is so hilariously perfect.
HadesGigas
Member
Dragon Age Redemption is out as well, the web series that 'inspired' the DLC I guess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-093SQo9NWM&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-093SQo9NWM&feature=player_embedded
Complistic
Member
no one bought the dlc right?
Complistic
Member
dx11 is super buggy and they said they won't be patching it.
Darklord said:
The joke is that it is hilarious that transgendered people exist because whoa what's up with that!!
Secondary joke is that transgendered people are sexually predatory and their mere presence makes everybody uncomfortable because what's up with that!!
So yeah if you're transgendered Bioware just called you a creepy, ridiculous piece of shit. I suppose you could take that in stride but if I were transgendered I'd probably be annoyed.
Pyrrhus said:
I'm not seeing how you look at this
and come away with "human face" but yeah okay.
Rodney McKay
Member
Other than the ears she looks identical to the actress she's modeled from, who is human believe it or not.bhlaab said:I'm not seeing how you look at this
and come away with "human face" but yeah okay.
So I am about halfway through act 2 and so far I am liking it although the longer I play the game the more faults I seem to find. This game is like a crack on a windshield, the longer I play the bigger the crack gets.
I guess with all the negative reaction from gamers I was expecting something much worse however the first act really surprised me. I really like the changes they made to the upgrade system and they cleaned up the interface and hud.
The biggest problem for me so far is that very little is happening in the story. So far I feel like I am just an errand boy running around doing pointless quests most of the time. Even the main story isn't that exciting so far. It was fun in the first act but now things seem to get a bit excessive.
The combat seems mostly the same but they over did it with the enemy waves, like the game, it didn't bother me at first but now its just getting repetitive. I like the new spell effects they did with mages though. My force mage is tearing things apart.
My other grip is my companions, they just don't seem all that interesting, I like varric the best and then isabelle but the rest seem average.
I am going to finish it, I like to see where the story is going it just seems like its taking forever to get there.
I guess with all the negative reaction from gamers I was expecting something much worse however the first act really surprised me. I really like the changes they made to the upgrade system and they cleaned up the interface and hud.
The biggest problem for me so far is that very little is happening in the story. So far I feel like I am just an errand boy running around doing pointless quests most of the time. Even the main story isn't that exciting so far. It was fun in the first act but now things seem to get a bit excessive.
The combat seems mostly the same but they over did it with the enemy waves, like the game, it didn't bother me at first but now its just getting repetitive. I like the new spell effects they did with mages though. My force mage is tearing things apart.
My other grip is my companions, they just don't seem all that interesting, I like varric the best and then isabelle but the rest seem average.
I am going to finish it, I like to see where the story is going it just seems like its taking forever to get there.